Sausalito work crew finds stash of guns on hillside

A work crew removing vegetation from a Sausalito hillside discovered a stash of guns partially buried with an old newspaper, police said Friday.

The guns — four revolvers and four pistols — were found at about 2 p.m. Thursday between Spring Street and Highway 101, Sausalito police Lt. Kurtis Skoog said. They were inside a plastic container with a 2002 copy of the Marin Independent Journal.

Seven of the handguns were unloaded. Only five had legible serial numbers, including one that was reported stolen in Richmond in 1994.

The guns were likely too corroded to be linked to any crimes, Skoog said. He said the hillside has been the site of small marijuana plots in the past.